A concrete mixer truck caked in dried slurry stands on a mountainside while a man in a concrete-splattered black puffer jacket and another in hi-vis look on. — Picture: @ylmzf1rat

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Mixer Truck Backs Up To Turkish Mountainside With Not A Pump In Sight As Crew Stare Down The Chute And Do The Wheelbarrow Maths

8 November 2026, 8:30 pmOn The Boom

KONYA, TURKEY — One agitator, one mountain range and not a single pump in the frame. A mixer truck has backed its barrel up to a Turkish hillside job, caked in what looks like a week of dried slurry, and the blokes standing beside it are staring at that chute like it owes them…

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Mixer Truck Backs Up To Turkish Mountainside With Not A Pump In Sight As Crew Stare Down The Chute And Do The Wheelbarrow Maths

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